One does not need to pay "patent fees" -- whatever those are -- to Adobe for using Flash.  Just like people some people can create PDF files and read those (open office can create PDF files, for example) without paying royalties to Adobe, same can happen with Flash.
<br><br>-ilya<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/29/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Artur Fijałkowski</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:wiki.warx@gmail.com">wiki.warx@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
2006/9/29, Ilya Haykinson &lt;<a href="mailto:haykinson@gmail.com">haykinson@gmail.com</a>&gt;:<br>&gt; I suggest that if we change our attitude and allow alternative,<br>&gt; actually-workable presentation of our media, we will be more correctly
<br>&gt; fulfilling our mission.&nbsp;&nbsp;Let's allow Flash for audio and video.<br>&gt;<br>&gt; -ilya haykinson<br><br>And of course YOU will pay patent fees to Macromedia for using Flash ?<br>Second thing that those flash movies (like eg. on youtube) are
<br>disgusting - it's impossible to simply download it, it' working to<br>slow on my machine, the player is wrong designed, etc.<br><br>I think that the right way is to teach people how use free tools and<br>force them to use it, then force everybody to use properiaty software,
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